URL:
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?32665>
Summary: allow message display to wrap (simple HTML change)
Project: MHonArc
Submitted by: skierpage
Submitted on: Thu 03 Mar 2011 05:32:25 AM GMT
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Undesired Behavior
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: Linux
Perl Version: unknown
Component Version: 2.6.18
Fixed Release:
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Details:
I browse the archives of mailing lists created by MHonArc.
Many messages to mailing lists that use its ASCII preformatted display are not
word-wrapped and so each paragraph appears as a few unreadably long lines in
all browsers. See for example
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-February/msg00192.html ,
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-February/msg00225.html ,
etc.
The fix is easy, just change the PRE tag to invoke the CSS white-space
handling:
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">
I'm not positive but this might be line 557 in lib/mhtxtplain.pl, change
- $$data = '<pre>' . $$data . '</pre>';
+ $$data = '<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">' . $$data .
'</pre>';
This _does not_ affect copy and paste of long lines and does not involve
processing or changing the text within the pre tag in any way. It just makes
many more messages readable!
Mailman had the same bug and has incorporated this bug fix for some time, see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266467
Earlier bug #13276: "Archive of mail lists does not text wrap in the Browser"
seems to refer to the same issue. It was closed as Not a Bug with the comment
"MHonArc provides options to deal with mis-behaved MUA's that do not properly
format text messages." I'm not familiar with MHonArc admin, but this pre
style fixes the problem with no downside.
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